Chapter 167: Master Zheng is gone
Liu Tielian is the village chief and also a "socialite" in the Qinghewan area. He has a deep understanding of the land situation, so Tong Huaqiong wanted to buy the land through him.
Tong Huaqiong returned to Qinghewan from the shop and went to Liu Tielian's home.
After hearing Tong Huaqiong's request to buy land, Liu Tielan smiled.
"......You're lucky. We have fifty acres of land for sale at the foot of the West Mountain." Liu Tielian said to Tong Huaqiong.
"It's really a coincidence. Whose land does Brother Liu have?" Tong Huaqiong asked.
Everyone knows that the fifty acres of land at the foot of the western mountain of Qinghe Bay are fertile farmland, but they have never belonged to anyone in the village.
Every year, people come to cultivate the land and some come to harvest the land, but they never talk to the villagers.
Very mysterious.
Tong Huaqiong was afraid that the land might belong to bandits or some royal relatives. If she bought it and the people turned around and denied it, she would be trapped.
Liu Tielian said: "The owner of this land was a scholar from Yueliangwan. He became an official and bought some land. Later, he committed a crime and his house was raided. This land was used as a sacrificial land and was not confiscated. His descendants were pardoned and could have returned home to live a quiet life with this land. However, they were used to a rich life and did not want to return home after arriving in the prefecture. In addition, they were not good at managing the land, so they had to sell it."
There are many such things in this era.
Tong Huaqiong thought of how Lu Zhaozhao had purchased sacrificial land for the Gu family in the Qinghe Bay area in her previous life. She thought that if Gu Jingzhe encountered setbacks in his official career in the future, the whole family would have a way out.
However, before the sacrificial field could take effect, Tong Dajiao's entire family was wiped out.
Thinking of this, Tong Huaqiong asked Liu Tiejian: "How much do you want to sell this field?"
Liu Tielian said, "The old servant of this family is from Yueliangwan. We were friends when we were kids, so he asked me to sell the land. If you want to buy it, you can get it for 150 taels of silver."
Tong Huaqiong calculated and found that the price was indeed not expensive.
You know, good farmland is hard to buy, and opportunities like this are rare.
She believed in Liu Tielian.
"Brother Liu, since I'm looking for you, I trust you. Please help me arrange the land."
Tong Huaqiong put two taels of silver in front of Liu Tielian and said, "This is your tea money."
Liu Tielian waved his hands repeatedly, saying that if it weren't for Tong Huaqiong, he wouldn't have been able to become the village chief.
It's just a small favor, why should he ask for money?
Tong Huaqiong insisted on giving it to him, and he was in a difficult position.
I don’t know whether I should accept it.
"Brother Liu, I know what you're thinking. You always think that I pushed you to be the village chief. But Brother Liu, think about it, who else in our village can be the village chief besides you? You are the village chief that our villagers want."
"So, Brother Liu, let's get along as we should. If you always keep my feelings in mind, it will make both of us feel uncomfortable, and our two families will become estranged in the future. To be honest, you are the uncle of my second son's wife, and I hope to have you as my relative, and I don't want to become estranged because of favors or not."
Tong Huaqiong felt that if Liu Tielian continued to treat her as his "benefactor", the relationship between the two families would become unnatural, and if this continued, the relationship would collapse sooner or later.
And she needs to work closely with the village chief to live in the village.
It would be better for her to expose Liu Tielian's inner thoughts and let the relationship between the two families return to a more natural state.
Liu Tielan was deeply moved when he heard Tong Huaqiong's explanation.
He did feel a little uncomfortable facing the Gu family, always afraid of accidentally offending his "benefactor", unlike when he was getting along with other people in the village.
"Mother Dashu, what you said is exactly what I thought. Okay, then our two families will continue to get along like before and do whatever needs to be done." Liu Tielan put away the two taels of silver.
Liu Tielian sent Tong Huaqiong out and revealed an important information to her.
"Dashu Niang, you know Zaohua, right? She got married to the Zheng family in Pingchuan County on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival. Her husband died last night, and the messenger who announced the death arrived at the Xu family today."
Xu Zaohua got married on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Due to the downfall of the Xu family and the fact that Xu Jin had always looked down on families in the village other than the Xu family, most of the families in the village other than the Xu family did not attend the banquet or give any gifts.
The Gu family naturally followed the crowd. Besides, Tong Huaqiong had little contact with Xu Jin, so it was normal for her not to go to the banquet or give gifts.
What's more, Xu Jin's family didn't send her any invitation.
Just a few days after her marriage, Young Master Zheng died of illness.
Tong Huaqiong was not surprised at all.
Isn’t the death of the Zheng family’s eldest son inevitable?
Thinking about how the eldest son of the Zheng family had burned Man'er all over her body in her previous life, Tong Huaqiong felt no sympathy for him at all.
As for Xu Zaohua, she also had no sympathy.
According to her thinking, it is much better for Xu Zaohua to have a dead man than to be with a psychopath.
She lived a stable life as the eldest lady of the Xu family, adopted a promising child from the clan, and found ways to control the Xu family's property. Her life was much happier than if she had a man.
It depends on whether Xu Zaohua can think it through.
But Tong Huaqiong was still too optimistic.
At this time, Mr. Zheng and his wife had directed their anger at Xu Zaohua. They did not blame themselves for not giving their son a good body, but instead blamed Xu Zaohua for killing their son after she entered the house.
In their previous life, they were like this.
Holding the hatred for her son's death, she tortured Maner.
Tong Huaqiong was returning home from Liu Tiejian's house and happened to pass by Xu Jin's house.
The Xu family's door was closed, and faint sounds of crying could be heard from inside.
Xu family.
Xu Zaohua's mother, Yu, was holding a handkerchief and crying.
She didn't expect that Young Master Zheng's illness was so serious. Xu Zaohua passed away just a few days after she got married.
The servant who came to report the death spoke unpleasantly, implying that Xu Zaohua had killed their eldest young master.
Yu was so angry that she almost fell down.
They haven't yet blamed the Zheng family for hiding the truth.
At first, the Zheng family said that Young Master Zheng was almost recovered from his illness, and Xu Jin and Yu were full of hope, thinking that their son-in-law could at least live long enough to have a child.
On the day Xu Zaohua got married, they found out that the eldest Master Zheng was too ill to get up, and even the wedding ceremony was performed by the young master of the Zheng family.
After learning the news, they did not dare to argue with the Zheng family. Their only hope was that Xu Zaohua could have a child.
Now with the death of Master Zheng, all hopes were shattered.
"My poor girl, your husband is dead. How are you going to live?" Yu cried.
"We'll live our lives as usual. We'll adopt a child from the clan, and Zaohua will still be the eldest lady of the Zheng family." Xu Jin didn't seem to be worried at all. "Even after Tong Da Jiao's husband died, she was able to live on. What about Zaohua? The Zheng family is rich and powerful. Even if she's a widow in the Zheng family, her life will be better than that of ordinary people."
Yu cried and said, "It's easy for you to say that. Tong Da Jiao doesn't have to serve her parents-in-law, but is served by her daughter-in-law. What's more, she already has a grandson. How can our daughter be the same? Our daughter is so young, and we have to wait on her like this? What's more, her parents-in-law are not easy to get along with. Are you deaf? Didn't you hear them say that it was Zaohua who killed their son-in-law?"
"How should Zaohua live?"
Yu felt sad for Zaohua when she thought about how Mr. Zheng and his wife blamed their daughter for the death of Mr. Zheng.
"Why don't we take Zaohua home? It's not impossible for a widow to remarry." Yu said to Xu Jin.
Xu Jin flatly refused and said, "You have to think about our two sons."
Yu whimpered.